Commerce ministry ramps up MSME recovery support
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Commerce ministry ramps up MSME recovery support
December 18 09:06 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce (MIIC) has stepped up coordinated support for micro, small and medium-sized enterp...
‘Shop with a Cop’ initiative gets $2 million boost
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‘Shop with a Cop’ initiative gets $2 million boost
December 18 08:49 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Clarendon Police has received a $2-million donation towards the staging of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) annual Shop wi...
Racing end Mount Pleasant’s unbeaten run in JPL
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Racing end Mount Pleasant’s unbeaten run in JPL
December 18 08:43 AM
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica—Racing United surprised Mount Pleasant FA 1-0 in their rescheduled Jamaica Premier League game played at Ferdie Neita Park on We...

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Peter Phillips…
BY Erica Virtue Observer writer 
August 27, 2005
Starting this week, the Sunday Observer will be putting the candidates for presidency of the People's National Party under the microscope. This week, ...
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Red Bones. Great blues, vibes, service and food
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
August 27, 2005
Soothing jazz clefs punctuate the musty air as we step gingerly (the bulb has blown) along the stone pavement and into the all-too-familiar embracing,...
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Missing teen’s mom hopeful after re-arrests of brothers
AP 
August 27, 2005
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Natalee Hollaway's mother said yesterday she believes "we are going to get answers" in the nearly three-month-old disappearan...
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Annual textbook survey
August 27, 2005
THE annual textbook survey results have revealed what the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) refers to as "moderate" price movements, saying only three...
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Stocktaking
Observer Reporter 
August 27, 2005
Mindful of the legacy he would like to leave behind, Prime Minister P J Patterson earlier this year disclosed a formidable wish list of things he woul...
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Importers ‘raping’ sugar
BY ARLENE MARTIN-WILKINS Sunday Observer reporter 
August 27, 2005
KEY players and sugar officials agree that some policy refinement has to accompany, or precede, any plans to elevate sugar from its raw, loss-making s...
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‘LENA’ GETS NEW SONG
By Michael Edwards Observer writer 
August 27, 2005
Lena Baker, a black maid who was executed in Georgia's electric chair 60 years ago has been pardoned by the state and will have a proclamation present...
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Uncovering the ‘underworld’ in your school
By Hopeton Henry 
August 27, 2005
THE issue of violence in Jamaican schools is always a controversial matter. Principals feel that if it is discussed publicly it will smear their schoo...
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Sugar company makes operating profit
Observer Reporter 
August 27, 2005
THE Sugar Company of Jamaica is showing a healthier financial position than it ever has since the turn of the decade, recording an $84 million operati...
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Chavez considers US$200m highway loan
Observer Reporter 
August 27, 2005
VENEZUELA seems set to lend Jamaica up to US$200 million to help government accelerate the construction of Highway 2000 and retire more expensive debt...
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Pope shares pain of families of Paris fire victims
AP 
August 27, 2005
VATICAN CITY, Italy (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI said yesterday he was united in the pain of those who lost loved ones in the Paris blaze that killed 14 c...
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Aruba re-arrests two brothers in missing teen case
AP 
August 26, 2005
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Two Surinamese brothers who had been detained and released in the Natalee Holloway case were arrested again yesterday based o...
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Guns blaze on Maxfield
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
August 26, 2005
THREE men were killed within of six hours in the volatile Maxfield Avenue area of Kingston yesterday. The dead men have been identified as 31 year-old...
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Be careful of G8 gifts, warns Rev Ernle Gordon
BASIL WALTERS Observer staff reporter 
August 26, 2005
Anglican priest the Rev Ernle Gordon says African countries should be cautious about the debt relief offer from the Group of 8 (G8) industrialised nat...
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Cops kill four robbers in Morant Bay
Observer Reporter 
August 26, 2005
MORANT BAY, St Thomas - Four men were fatally shot by the police in Morant Bay, St Thomas on Thursday evening following the robbery of a hardware stor...
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Light bill protests
Observer Reporters 
August 25, 2005
JAMAICA Labour Party supporters demonstrated in two Jamaican cities and a parish capital yesterday against spiralling electricity bills, but it was ap...

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